Analyzing
Can your students dissect information to explore understandings and relationships?
Consider your role as the teacher.... Think about the student role...
  • Probe
  • Guide
  • Observe
  • Evaluate
  • Act as a resource
  • Question
  • Organize
  • Dissect
  • Discuss
  • Uncover
  • Argue
  • Debate
  • Think deeply
  • Test
  • Examine
  • Question
  • Calculate
  • Investigate
  • Inquire
  • Actively participate
Skills to be demonstrated by students include...
  • break learned information into its parts to best understand information
  • seeing patterns
  • organization of parts
  • recognition of hidden meanings
  • identification of components
Key words to consider as you develop objectives and questions...
  • analyze
  • appraise
  • arrange
  • assume
  • break down
  • calculate
  • categorize
  • classify
  • compare
  • conclusion
  • contrast
  • correlate
  • criticize
  • debate
  • detect
  • diagram
  • differentiate
  • discover
  • discriminate
  • dissect
  • distinguish
  • distinction
  • divide
  • examine
  • experiment
  • focus
  • group
  • function
  • illustrate
  • inference
  • inquire
  • inspect
  • investigate
  • limit
  • list
  • motive
  • order
  • outline
  • point out
  • prioritize
  • probe
  • question
  • recognize
  • relate
  • research
  • separate
  • sequence
  • sift
  • simplify
  • subdivide
  • survey
  • take part in
  • test for
  • theme
Sample Questions
  • What are the parts or features of...?
  • How is _____ related to...?
  • Why do you think...?
  • What is the theme...?
  • What motive is there...?
  • Can you list the parts...?
  • What inference can you make...?
  • What conclusions can you draw...?
  • How would you categorize...?
  • Can you identify the different parts...?
  • What evidence can you find...?
  • What is the relationship between...?
  • What is the function of...?
  • What ideas justify...?
  • Which events could not have happened?
  • If. ..happened, what might the ending have been?
  • How is...similar to...?
  • What do you see as other possible outcomes?
  • Can you explain what must have happened when...?
  • What are some or the problems of...?
  • Can you distinguish between...?
  • What were some of the motives behind..?
  • What was the turning point?
  • What was the problem with...?

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Possible Projects/Assignments
  • Design a questionnaire to gather information.
  • Write a commercial to sell a new product.
  • Conduct an investigation to produce information to support a view.
  • Make a flow chart to show the critical stages.
  • Construct a graph to illustrate selected information.
  • Make a jigsaw puzzle.
  • Make a family tree showing relationships.
  • Put on a play about the study area.
  • Write a biography of the study person.
  • Prepare a report about the area of study.
  • Arrange a party. Make all the arrangements and record the steps needed.
  • Review a work of art in terms of form, color and texture.
  • Use a Venn Diagram to show how two topics are the same and different
  • Survey classmates to find out what they think about a particular topic. Analyze the results.
  • Classify the actions of the characters in the book
  • Complete a Decision Making Matrix to help make a decision.

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